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[AN #137]: Quantifying the benefits of pretraining on downstream task performance

Rohin Shah10 Feb 2021 18:10 UTC

18 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

We got what’s needed for COVID-19 vaccination completely wrong

ChristianKl10 Feb 2021 7:59 UTC

61 points

32 comments4 min readLW link

A great hard day

KatjaGrace10 Feb 2021 7:00 UTC

54 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Notes on Schelling’s “Strategy of Conflict” (1960)

MichaelA10 Feb 2021 2:48 UTC

25 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

Fixing The Good Regulator Theorem

johnswentworth9 Feb 2021 20:30 UTC

139 points

39 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Book review: The Geography of Thought

PeterMcCluskey9 Feb 2021 18:47 UTC

73 points

37 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Still Not in Charge

Zvi9 Feb 2021 16:00 UTC

46 points

24 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

We Need Browsers as Platforms

jefftk9 Feb 2021 15:40 UTC

15 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Epistemology of HCH

adamShimi9 Feb 2021 11:46 UTC

17 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

How would free prediction markets have altered the pandemic?

mike_hawke9 Feb 2021 10:55 UTC

10 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Against butterfly effect

ForensicOceanography9 Feb 2021 7:46 UTC

5 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(forensicoceanography.wordpress.com)

Evolution from distinction difference

KatjaGrace9 Feb 2021 5:20 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Promoting Prediction Markets With Meaningless Internet-Point Badges

1a3orn8 Feb 2021 19:03 UTC

59 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

Micromorts vs. Life Expectancy

Young Buck8 Feb 2021 19:03 UTC

5 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What metrics should I track when experimenting with sleep?

CheerfulWarrior8 Feb 2021 17:22 UTC

10 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Were the Great Tragedies of History “Mere Ripples”?

philosophytorres8 Feb 2021 15:35 UTC

−24 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

The distinction distance

KatjaGrace8 Feb 2021 7:40 UTC

24 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Quadratic, not logarithmic

Valentin20268 Feb 2021 3:42 UTC

84 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Singularity&phase transition-2. A priori probability and ways to check.

Valentin20268 Feb 2021 2:21 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Metric selection bias: why Moore’s law is less important than you think

Aaron Bergman8 Feb 2021 0:21 UTC

18 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Killing the ants

Joe Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:17 UTC

76 points

27 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Making Expertise Legible: Being right should make you respected, not the other way around

ejacob7 Feb 2021 23:15 UTC

6 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

(eidan.substack.com)

Timeline of AI safety

riceissa7 Feb 2021 22:29 UTC

73 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(timelines.issarice.com)

History of the Public Suffix List

jefftk7 Feb 2021 22:20 UTC

11 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Book review: Sleight of Mind (Matt Cook)

Bob Baker7 Feb 2021 21:44 UTC

4 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How do you optimize productivity with respect to your menstrual cycle?

just_browsing7 Feb 2021 21:39 UTC

97 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Why I Am Not in Charge

Zvi7 Feb 2021 18:20 UTC

145 points

23 comments25 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

#unclogtheFDA: a twitter storm to approve vaccines

Tim Liptrot7 Feb 2021 14:39 UTC

45 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Short, Extreme, Forgotten Torture vs Death

burrito7 Feb 2021 9:31 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Democracy, Bureaucracy, Central Banking

Martin Sustrik7 Feb 2021 8:54 UTC

19 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Massive consequences

KatjaGrace7 Feb 2021 5:30 UTC

23 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Bring Back Free-Flow Valves

jefftk7 Feb 2021 3:50 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

O2 Curve Review: Well Worth the Money

eapache6 Feb 2021 22:35 UTC

14 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

What it means to be lucky

Amir Bolous6 Feb 2021 17:40 UTC

7 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How could natural language look like if it hadn’t evolved from speech?

newroscientist6 Feb 2021 16:31 UTC

5 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Fake Frameworks for Zen Meditation (Summary of Sekida’s Zen Training)

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Feb 2021 15:38 UTC

54 points

11 comments10 min readLW link

Current cryonics impressions

KatjaGrace6 Feb 2021 10:00 UTC

63 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Is the world becoming better?

invertedpassion6 Feb 2021 9:28 UTC

34 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

Intuitions about utilities

mingyuan6 Feb 2021 0:12 UTC

32 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

The Fear Experiments

Tim Lyons5 Feb 2021 22:57 UTC

10 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Learning Normativity: Language

Bunthut5 Feb 2021 22:26 UTC

14 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Open & Welcome Thread – February 2021

mingyuan5 Feb 2021 21:38 UTC

13 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Three Stories about not Thinking too Hard

ejacob5 Feb 2021 19:51 UTC

25 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(eidan.substack.com)

Evolutions Building Evolutions: Layers of Generate and Test

plex5 Feb 2021 18:21 UTC

12 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Notes on Frugality

David Gross5 Feb 2021 16:54 UTC

15 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

[Link] Sarah Constantin on RaDVaC

Orborde5 Feb 2021 16:08 UTC

38 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

[Question] What does flow feel like for “mental activities”?

Hazard5 Feb 2021 14:33 UTC

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Creating AGI Safety Interlocks

Koen.Holtman5 Feb 2021 12:01 UTC

7 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Meetup: Daniel Kokotaljo on Commitment Races (Sunday Feb 7th, 12pm PT)

Raemon5 Feb 2021 9:34 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Any layperson-accessible reference posts on how to operationalize beliefs ?

Optimization Process5 Feb 2021 7:26 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readLW link